Levitating Pyrolytic Graphite Pieces

[WhiteBoyScience]

how the fuck do i keep getting here?!

[Zanzabarism]

best air hockey table ever!!!

[LadySeleneBeauPre]

Where can you get the Pyrolytic graphite and magnets?

[BlackFishSS]

Sod the air hockey. Make all the sidewalks and pavements out of this and lets have some hoverboards to whiz around on! XD

[TheWaffleWarrior]

well i thought i was a genius when i thought of air hockey.. then i saw the comments.. :(

[jesseRYU]

make it bigger, put it in a coil and make a generator :D

[Middleton904]

congrats on your waste of money...

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

imagine playing air hockey on this?

[Stere0123]

cool! it aligns to the grid XD

[zachywacky10]

where u get it?

[Barnabi21]

so the more perfect the circle the longer it spins?

[trwMagnets]

Sooooo cool to watch.

[TiagoTiagoT]

Air hockey table that works without needing to plug on the wall, and works even in the vacum! 0.0

[Jimbo11ST]

lame

[11889music]

Could this be used for creating a 'levitating' skate rink? Like a 21st century version of ice-skating ?

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[lufy79]

this is the future of air hocky!!!!!!

[Griff1275]

magnetic ATARI

[Antardrews]

where can i buy this?

[BillyBobBlowJob123]

future air hocky!!

[OTNAKR2]

play air hockey with this. or magnet hockey. :D

[zamrzko]

Umm... air hockey future ? :D

[TimberWolfD1]

im curious to see how this would work in a zero G enviroment

[BooyaaPwned]

whats the black colour for?

[explodo3]

This could be used in the future to reduce friction. That would be awesome..

[universalmoor]

how well does pyrolytic graphite conduct electricity?

[stuuk1958]

should sell as toy

[bluefox216]

hmm... arrange a bunch of neodymium magnets so you have a big table about the size of an air hockey table a piece of pyrolytic graphite about 2 millimeters thick 3 inches in diameter coated in a layer of plastic to keep it from shattering and something to smack the puck back and forth and you have magnet hockey :D

(keep away from pacemakers)

[AnimatorLinden]

10-20 more years :-|

[matthias2986]

graphite has no magnetic properties. when graphite is placed in the presence of strong magnetic feilds produces a repulsive effect due to its chemical composition.

[stevenr4]

Is it possible to make an air-hockey table out of this? If so, what do you think the price-range of the graphite and the materials would be?

[sypha0x]

of course you can ur seeing him doing it right now lol

[ThrowingItAway]

@sypha0x lol only problem with that is it would stop you watch and erase your credit cards when you played it not to mention steal your spare change =P

[sypha0x]

lol very true hehe

[sypha0x]

u know this is off topic but I was playing with a N42 Grade Neodymium sphere and placed it inside a big bottle of smart water and it just sunk as if the water wasn't their. Just an observation of water's hydrogen part of H2O behaving as diamagnetic. It appeared the water split a cavity for the magnet to fall in.

[sypha0x]

though it would be best if the table itself was Pyrolytic Graphite and the puck or whatever the neodymium magnet

[xkwiptwendl]

Good luck getting a magnet to hover without the aid of a lifter magnet- the reason pyrolytic graphite is good for levitation is because it isn't very dense, and it can be separated into very thin slivers.

[supergooddeal]

Ahhhhhhhhh, don't count all your chickens till they hatch. I am really close to getting a magnet to hover without the aid of pyrolytic graphite. Remember the world was flat till discovered otherwise. Peace.

[chao129]

an air hockey table made like this would use hundreds of dollars of neodymium magnets, and the puck, being made from thin pyrolytic graphite, would be easily broken.

[xkwiptwendl]

totally didn't see this post, but also if you really wanted to get a puck that is a legit puck sized piece of pyrolytic graphite, it would cost hundreds of dollars as well :P

[supergooddeal]

Ahhhhhhhhhhh to be a millionaire. Then again someone with all that money probrably wouldn't be playing with magnets anyway. LOL

[matthias2986]

alot more then a table using air to produce the same effect. it would have to be a small puck as one of size used on an air table would be too heavy to suport itself, also would likely break the first time you shot it lol =P

[fuelban]

hi, are you sure this is levitation ?? & not susspension. !!. two magnets in a glass tube, whole lot on scales, tube is 100grams each magnet is 100 gr total = 300 gr, Now make the magnets oppose within the tube on the scales, what would total weight then be, 200gr ? as one magnet is in air, WELL NO... IT WILL STILL BE 300GR, DUE TO GRAVITATIONAL PULL, = suspenssion,,,,, not levitation..... if levitation you get no reading on scales... and so... its SUSPENSION..

THOM.

[8thlvlMage]

Gee way to get technical. I'm all for understanding physics but it's good to turn the brain off every now and then...

[knowitall599]

While you test the magnetic properties of the graphite flash it with a camera. Trust me;)

[AstralJourney0]

new generation of air hockey !!!

[Oz6102]

@AstralJourney0 you mean "diamagnetic hocky", "pencil hocky" or carbon hocky!

[magicman456789]

@AstralJourney0 it would be more of a mag hockey table ha ha

[Techboywonder13]

@AstralJourney0 why hasnt anyone already made that??? :D

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

@AstralJourney0 literally ALL AIR :D

[animorphs123]

so i'm guessing if you wanted a magnetic air hockey table, you would make a striker out of omniwheels? since i don't think it would float right?

[gyrran]

haha, imagine an air hockey table with those:P it wouldn't cool your sweaty palms though..

[Rufftyroff]

How much does it cost for the 144 cubes and those few pieces that floats?

[RobertGoulet298]

I did this for a science fair in middle school years ago, and those shit faced little bastards stole my display right off my table. Those magnets were expensive!

[Rufftyroff]

Man that really sucks. I'd be mad in full-blast. Hey, if I have some extra pieces I don't need when I purchase them, I can give them to you if possible.

[sanin92]

does anyone know why pyrolytic graphite is repelled at the edges of a neodymium magnet but not at the center of a neodymium magnet, because if you get a large neodymium magnet and place a piece of graphite in the center of either the north of south poles, the graphite will sit there and not move or levitate, if you bring it towards the edge of the magnet it flies off and is repelled. Can anybody explain this phenomenon?

[megaverse]

well i know for a fact that the for cubes it's stronger in the corners and they are usually of not the same force, even within the same little cubic magnet we see in this vid. so that's is one key and the other is probably the way it distrute it's force when alone or when in group like alone it resemble a perfect mushroon for example and when in group it resemble a scramble floor so it's easier to maintain a dime on that floor than on top of a mushroom ? ...something like that lol.

[NamesROverated]

heh, scale it up, and you got some diamagnetic air hockey

[Duckeieio]

What would happen if you put a small magnet on a block of Pyrolytic Graphite sort of the same thing right if the neodymium was small enough to lift its own weight

[sanin92]

THAT STUFF IS SO EXPENSIVE

[grosjoinvtech]

remove the gap between the magnets it will improve

[probrhalo]

hair hockey with no electricity cool

[tricky778]

Deos the pyrolytic graphic cause a gradual loss of magnetism in the super magnets or not? Ie, is it superconducting in tiny disconnected regions or does it take energy out of the order in the magnets?

Does this graphite work by eddies forming in the electron cloud of the carbon rings?

[tbonealaska]

hoverboard...

[aeroscope]

hey questions to ask u: are the magnets on the bottom strong or weak?

[snrchat]

wot is da strip of stuff at da beginin

[frizspin175]

it shows where the lines of flux are.

[jasonguyperson]

that does it.. I'm making an air-hockey table out of neodymium and a puck out of graphite..

[Quicksilvers888]

it will stop since the polarity of the magnets will pull the spinning superconductor into still. Also, once the temperature begins to heat up again, it will stop.

[kusler67]

If you spun this in a vacuum would it never stop?

[ianorg]

If the graphite were a perfect circle it would spin without stopping. The square shape makes it want to align itself with the magnets, which is what is stopping it in the videos. You can see it when it slows and stops it is always lined up with the rows of magnets.

[BHMatrix]

@ianorg

LOL, what school did you go to?, even if the graphite was a perfect circle there would still have a magnetic alignment.

the magnets would eventually stop it.

[MrAwsome514]

@ianorg Actually even if it was a perfect circle it would stop because of the friction in the air.

[mtbtom7]

@MrAwsome514 it said - "in a vacuum"

[MrAwsome514]

@mtbtom7 Problem is there is no way to create a perfect vacuum. There will still be some air molecules left with it which will slow it down over time. It will just take a lot longer.

[InvisiblesilenceA]

@MrAwsome514 How about space?

No air there. Sure, there's no gravity either, but that's where you'd go to create a perfect vacuum.

AIP§

[MrAwsome514]

@InvisiblesilenceA Even in space there are trace amounts of gas.

[Tbone155817]

@ianorg I know that its effects are mostly negated by the magnetic fields, but isn't it impossible to have perpetual motion in an environment with gravity?

[patchstitch]

@kusler67 thus creating

perpetual motion

[ChrisKarr]

I was thinking about, since carbon (what graphite is made of) is electrically conductive, what would happen if you made a magnet out of the stuff? Would the poles simply be reversed from what a normal magnet of normal graphite would do? Or would it, if you applied a proper amount of electricity in Volts, make a white light which could be used to travel through space (and, thus, time)?

[DelJunya]

or you could make this thing into an air hockey table XD

[RyuDarragh]

Pyrolytic Graphite. Crystalline (4-8) graphite, somewhere between graphite (un ordered) and diamond (highly ordered). Crystals in PG are capable of pinning cooper pairs in tiny superconducting loops on crystal grains that are held at 180 degrees to imposed magnetic fields. Difference between a bulk superconductor is there is very little paramagnetic effect here so the PG doesn;t get pinned in place.

[FilmNFire]

Air Hockey.. I was just thinking about that... Very cool! Magno-Hockey

[DelJunya]

ya that'd be sweet...

[chaotictails]

ah this is cool

[RaiderX]

I long await the day when we have magnetic air hockey tables.

[chaomaster37]

insaaanestuff wear did you find it?

[ianorg]

Try doign a google search on "Pyrolytic Graphite". Some suppliers should show up at the top under the shop section.

[Timbo17932]

where can i get dat grafite stuff?!!!

[insaaanestuff]

its super hard to find, took me 2 weeks

[otakuturtle]

I keep thinking about people playing air hockey on it and ruining their watches, or cellphones if they stand too close to it.

[figurethis1out]

lol, thats what I was thinking

[wanshei]

jeeezzz you folks need to open your minds to the possibilities. Bruce Lee... "like a finger pointing to the moon, if you focus on the finger you will miss all the heavenly glory."

[DeimosSaturn]

Would make a nice desk toy.

[Justamit2501]

duh, you saw the green paper he put on there @ first, its a magnet tracer, and it does exactly that. there magnets.

[sinister8dexter]

where does this plug in?

[Havocprime]

Its obviously not fake, its sad that you have to disguise your Un-ending Ideals of not being able to figure out HOW its performed with the idea that itself is wrong and you arent, because you CANT be wrong can you? Your the best, at everything.

Low-Power magnets, and grafite, How cool would it be to have say 500 squares, and not just the 50-60 sum-odd you have there, the movements would look Much more free and less grid-sticky.

[wildhart7]

lol they are high powered magnets and it is grid sticky because it is a series of alterating magnetic fields which forms little magnetic traps it also makes it stable

[PostTheMissing]

OR

pyrolytic graphite is a diamagnetic material...

[bigwodee84]

GO TO kjmagnetics TO BUY SOME REALLY CHEAP AND FUN MAGNETS

[VideoJunkei]

I saw a video that floated a piece of this stuff over just 4 magnets, it stayed in the center! It is NOT fake, however, the effect is weak...

[coolburt2]

kool were did u get da grafite and neodymium???

[ianorg]

I can't post a link, but do a google search for "scitoys". Thats the site I bought the pyrolytic graphite from.

[kossxf]

This deserves to be in the hall of FAKE

[VideoJunkei]

I think you are fake! Prove to me you are not!

[d00deth]

ROFL! Noob.

[mrpuffycoat]

that sucks :D

[dagwort]

I found that oddly mesmerizing...

[cchance]

electro magnetic skating rings! that would be wicked!

[bendejonge]

You don't want to hold these magnets in front of a monitor, unless it's a LCD one...

[redviper101]

Instead of air hockey you have magnetic hockey.

[ianorg]

Strong shocks do harm magnets, yes. The "puck" in this case though is not magnetic, the floor is. But regardless, this currently only works on a tiny scale so no palying hockey with it. Yet.

[Godmiao]

X_X. If you played air hockey with magnets. Wouldn't it lose it's magnetism? Magnets lose it's magnetism when hit right?

[altomage]

The puck would be applicable to go anywhere.

[bluetat]

lol

[NoceboX]

Oh cool. I suppose u could play air hockey in them if u had enough... although i bet it would be expensive